| cockcroft and walton accelerator | (n) a high-voltage machine in which rectifiers charge capacitors that discharge and drive charged particles through an accelerating tube, Syn. Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier, Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier, Cockcroft-Walton accelerator |
| walton | (n) English composer (1902-1983), Syn. William Walton, Sir William Turner Walton, Sir William Walton |
| walton | (n) English writer remember for his treatise on fishing (1593-1683), Syn. Izaak Walton |
| walton | (n) Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995), Syn. E. T. S. Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, Ernest Walton |
